One of the first surgeons appointed to the Sussex County Hospital at Brighton, his colleagues being Robert Taylor (q.v.) and John Lawrence (q.v.). He was Surgeon to the Royal Family, and received £300 a year for attending the household at the Pavilion. He vaccinated King Edward VII and the Princess

Was born of yeoman stock at Aynho, Oxfordshire, and was educated at the local grammar school under Mr Leonard, known for his scholarship and his addiction to green tea. He was apprenticed to a surgeon at Woodstock, and afterwards became a pupil of John Abernethy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where h

Born in January, 1787. He joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Sept 15th, 1808, and was promoted Surgeon on Jan 1st, 1820; Superintending Surgeon on Nov 21st, 1830; a Member of the Bombay Medical Board on Jan 3rd, 1835; and President of the Board on the following May 1st. His active servic

The fourth of the twelve children and the eldest son of the Rev Samuel Levick Cooper, the elder brother of Sir Astley Cooper and grandson of Dr Cooper, Vicar of Great Yarmouth. Born in Great Yarmouth on September 2nd, 1792, he went to school at Bungay under the Rev Robert Page, and afterwards to the

William Hey III, son of William Hey II (qv), was born on December 23rd, 1796, the eldest of four brothers. He was appointed Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary in 1830, and succeeded to the practice of his father on the latter's death in 1844; he held the position of Surgeon until 1851, when he became Co

Was a well-known surgeon in Leeds, having been prominently connected with the Leeds School of Medicine, where he lectured on surgery, anatomy, and physiology. He helped to establish the Leeds Public Dispensary, with which he was connected as one of its Surgeons from its opening in 1824 till 1852. He

Was Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Bloomsbury Square, and to the Artists' Benevolent Fund. He was a thoroughly good surgeon, a most sincere and warm-hearted friend, and a strictly honourable and upright man, of high independent spirit. To the patients of the hospital he was extremely kin

Was at one time Senior Surgeon of the Metropolitan Free Hospital, Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Surgery at the Hunterian School of Medicine, and President of the Harveian Society, 1843-1844. In the eventful year of railway speculation Lucas became a victim to the prevailing mania, and t

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, and practised at Winchester and at Brighton. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon (having previously been Surgeon) to the Hampshire County Hospital, County Gaol, and Police, Winchester. He died at Brighton on September 10th, 1873. Publications:- Lyfor

The son of the Rev Isaac Hurst, of Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, and grandson of the Rev Robert H Hurst, at one time Incumbent of Newton Blossomville, Buckingham. He went to Christ's Hospital, and was then apprenticed to Charles Short, of Bedford. He next entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals and a

The son of an Irish country surgeon who had been a pupil of John Abernethy. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October, 1816, and was for twenty years Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary, and temporarily to the Fever Hospital. He was also Consulting Surgeon to St Anne's Society Schools and to th

Born at Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, on May 12th, 1796, the twin son of the Rev Donald Martin, and was educated at the Royal Academy, Inverness. He remained a student at St George's Hospital and at the Windmill Street School of Medicine until 1817, when on September 5th, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon